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White Noise: Performing the White, Middle-Class Family on 1930s Radio
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 3, Spring 2012
- pp. 97-118
- 10.1353/cj.2012.0066
- Article
- Additional Information
This study investigates the radio roots of a discourse of domestic whiteness that is typically associated with family sitcoms of the 1950s. Through analysis of a highly popular evening serial, One Man's Family (NBC, 1932-1959), the article tracks the production of domestic whiteness in sound, narrative, and vocal performance, situating it within the institutional and social contexts of 1930s radio.